On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 17:32 -0700, Steve Atkins wrote:
If A=B then lower(A) = lower(B), and if A like B then lower(A) like
lower(B).
So, if nothing else, you could rewrite "where alias = 'Foo'" as
"where lower(alias) = lower('Foo') and alias='Foo'" and take advantage
of the lower() functional index.
Good idea. Thanks. The niggling remaining problem is that the DB is open to a SQL-savvy audience and it'd be nice to avoid telling them to casefold their predicates.
For regexps, lower(alias) ~* lower(regexp) won't work because extended regexps might contain character classes (e.g., \S != \s). And, I guess that alias ~* regexp requires a seqscan because the index isn't ordered over ~* (right?). How about lower(alias) ~* regexp ? Is PG smart enough to know that that ordering is well defined? Is my head on straight there?
Thanks again,
Reece
